Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

I just dress up what the Good Lord provides.

Sometimes, things are just exercises.

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.